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By The Business Insider iCall has more than 100,000 iPhone users, its CEO tells us, so it already knows the business pretty well. It also owns the trademark to "iCall," which Apple may or may not want to own. And perhaps it has executives and/or technology that Apple could want.

By John Herrman This Week's iPhone News On Giz • Mega-iPhone Dorks Who Idolise Rambo, Strap This On For Size • Analyst Claims iPhone Users Are Suffering From "Stockholm Syndrome" • Apple Patent Shows Dock Made From 'Elastic Sponge-Like Substance' That Conforms To Shape of iPod/iPhone

By Jesus Diaz I like everything about this video. That's how I imagine the interaction would be: Smooth and light. I hope the styling of the final tablet ends being more than an overgrown iPhone, however. Something with no framing, with the screen fully flushed to the edges, would work mighty fine, thank y...

By Sean Fallon Apple has launched a beautiful phone with a fantastic user interface that has had a number of technological shortcomings that many iPhone users have accepted and defended, despite those shortcomings resulting in limitations in iPhone users' daily lives."

By Kat Hannaford Apple patents are flowing in thick and fast, with yesterday's anti-tampering idea, and now a universal dock which can be molded to the shape of whichever iPod or iPhone you put in it. Is Apple messing with us? A shape-shifting iPod dock to match your shape-changing Jaguar C-XS car, perhaps...

By matt buchanan More recently, Apple tried to buy AdMob—one of the dominant players in mobile advertising—not only to make more money off of iPhone apps, but to keep Google from buying them. Interestingly, the WSJ says Apple "has been exploring buying iPhone-related technologies that it doesn't yet ha...

By Sean Fallon In another patent, Apple is looking to broaden the role of the accelerometer in it's portable devices, noting that motion could be used to navigate and control the device itself. For example, users could shake the device to play a song or flick it to scroll through menus. That idea has been to...

By Kat Hannaford Same story with tablets—whether you've got an Archos, ASUS or a secret Apple tablet no-one knows about. Provided the cost of the ebooks doesn't outweigh the cost of a paperback, it's an extra bonus for anyone who owns one of these multi-purpose devices.

By Brian Barrett It's an uprooting of the entire iTunes model: Not only would you buy songs and manage your iTunes library through the web, iTunes could shift to having a serious streaming component, away from "download to own," as Apple's been evaluating the impact of Pandora and Lala on iTunes, though t...

By Mark Wilson In other words, Pac-Man CE—an XBLA exclusive up to today's iPhone announcement—was a big score for XBLA. A game had brought the 360 back to the very roots of modern gaming, but it was updated with all the pizazz of a first, true sequel to the original. Microsoft hiring Namco Bandai/Iwatani fo...

By Kat Hannaford The editor of Mobile Review, which has no track record on Apple rumors, is claiming Foxconn has just received an order for the next generation of iPhones. Foxconn, as you know, makes the iPhone for Apple, so that's not exactly big news.

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By Jesus Diaz Sure, Apple has created some simple games in the past—mostly as technology demonstrators to get the ball rolling, first in the classic iPod, then the iPhone—but this job description calls for a lot more: Interactive experiences, user interfaces, 3D characters in 3D environments... My hu...

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By Kat Hannaford Griffin AirCurve and iTrip Autopilot Any iPhone or iPod owner is bound to be happy with a couple of accessories from Griffin. Take the AirCurve clear acoustic amplifier, which acts as a speaker with no batteries required. Combine it with a car accessory for Christmas, such as the iTrip Auto...

By Mark Wilson The Monitor Monster, a "prototype," is a bent/cut piece of cardboard that "docks" your iPhone on top of your monitor. That unto itself is amusing, but what's even funnier is the 12-minute instructional video explaining how to build it.

By Jesus Diaz I sure hope so. I'm tired of all the on-your-face Hello-I'm-a-Mac ads, and I would love Apple to get an inspiring short up there. Because that's what the Think Different campaign was: Inspiring, especially in a moment in which Apple was about to fall into oblivion. Watching it still makes my e...

By Jesus Diaz He says that Apple is offering 30/70 revenue split to book publishers. That's 30% for Apple, and 70% for publishers for a non-exclusive distribution contract. Amazon—who apparently has pissed off everyone in the book industry—only offers 30/70 for exclusives, and 50/50 for the rest. He c...

By Kat Hannaford Ustream has had an official iPhone app available for a while now, but due to Apple's strict policies users could only upload video online after filming was finished—ie, not live at all. Enabling live streaming video from your iPhone to the internet, it works over a 3G connection and can upd...

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By Sean Fallon If you are just looking for something basic, a remote like the MCE PC will do the job just fine—and it costs under $20. If you have an iPhone, you can also download apps like AirMouse (iTunes link) and MediaMote (iTunes link) to handle these tasks. Gmote is also available for those of you with An...

By Brian Barrett It's exciting to see developers take full advantage of the Android mobile OS instead of just making copycats of their existing iPhone versions. Especially if it eventually forces Apple to loosen their grip to stay competitive. [PaidContent via All Things D]

By matt buchanan Okay, so LaLa obviously fits into that need. But what's Apple going to do with it specifically? Bring LaLa under iTunes? Kill LaLa and assimilate its features into iTunes? Keep LaLa running. Well, there's actually some pretty good case studies when it comes to Apple buying up smaller compa...

By Adam Frucci And just where will these digital magazines be distributed? On the theoretical Apple Tablet? On the Kindle or Nook? None of these are great options. Apple, Amazon and Barnes and Noble are all pretty deeply in the content-delivery business, and they may not be all that excited to have these...

By John Herrman A lot of people spend a lot of time reviewing and comparing apps, so there's no shortage of critical information to guide your purchases. But what do iPhone and iPod Touch users actually buy? Here's the leaderboard for 2009. Anyway, what about the free apps? [iTunes Rewind]

By Jason Chen 5. It will cost $500. Chandra said Arrington's claim of a $200 or $300 tablet was unfeasible and unrealistic, and compared it to smaller devices like the iPhone and netbooks. And isn't Apple about to dump one of these on the market next year?

By John Herrman When you buy a smartphone, you're stuck with its OS. Your carrier might toss you a few software updates, and if you're particularly gutsy, you might install some custom-baked software of your own, though you're generally stuck with variations on your default OS, not a wholly new one. It's a...

By Wilson Rothman Barnes & Noble has adopted a more natural attitude toward the books they sell, too, allowing you to access what you buy via ebook readers on Macs and PCs, iPhones and BlackBerrys (and in a few months, Android phones) as well as the Nook. Amazon has an iPhone app, but as yet there's no way to...

By Jack Loftus Sadly, it's not bank accounts. It's Shazam. The iPhone app that listens to tunes and tells you what they are. Schiller and I list it as our favorite. Emboldened, I feel as though I could deliver an Apple keynote tomorrow. Of course I couldn't, not really, not with my penchant for socially awkward...

By John Herrman This Week's iPhone News On Giz • An Exploded iPhone Is a Major Frat Party Buzzkill...Or Is It? • Apple Sued For iPhone Patent Infringement, Again • New Mercedes iPhone App: Hands On • Just a Cheap iPhone/iPod Adapter USB Hub • Where Is My iPhone Videochat, Apple?

By Sean Fallon I was at a fraternity house hanging out one night. One of my friends had his iPhone plugged into the speakers so we could have music. We had the usual speaker system, a receiver and some speakers. I was standing near the receiver when All the sudden the iphone cut off and started to smoke. The room f...

By CNET Exactly what Apple intends to do with Lala remains unclear, but it would appear that Apple intends to offer some kind of streaming service to iTunes users. Right now, Apple is the largest music store online or offline and Apple has made more money than any other music service by selling musi...

By Jesus Diaz We talk, Apple listens. A little bit. The Mac Pro has been quietly upgraded. Nothing incredibly amazing, but quite a good jump in processor speed: Now you can order them with 3.33GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors for a mere $1200.

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By John Herrman These patent lawsuit stories are basically madlibs anyway, so what the hell: ST CLAIR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS has sued APPLE COMPUTER over CAMERA TECHNOLOGY in the IPHONE. They have a history of WINNING LAWSUITS, and BUTT FARTS.

By Danny Allen A bunch of great netbook upgrades are on the way—next-gen Intel processors in January; smooth HD video playback—but to spare you the brain hemorrhage of keeping track, we've laid it all out. Here's what you need to know. A netbook with Ion graphics and an Intel Pineview processor like the N4...

By Brian Barrett Intel hasn't yet said how many developers are actually working on netbook-specific applications, and they were vague in a CNET interview about what exactly we might see, other than promises of social networking-type capabilities. And of course, there's an easy way to keep 100% of your n...

By Mark Wilson OK, OK, I realize that I've gone on for a while here, and at any second, Nigel Lythgoe is going to unpause on your DVR and it's going to sound really loud because both our ears have adjusted to the room's noise without a television blaring—no Apple TV, btw? But that's neither here nor there. My p...

By Jason Chen It's $10, but it's an RPG, which supposedly implies more gameplay hours than non-RPGs. Even when you're not actually playing the game, you can level up your guys by listening to the music that's bound to each character, giving you an added bonus to use your iPhone/iTouch more. [iTunes (Full...

By Brian Lam Of course, we aren't saying Apple got it right out the gate. Our review specifically said to wait, because although there were no other alternatives at the time with such forward-thinking interfaces, the iPhone had some very basic features missing that were par for high end phones in 1997...

By Mark Wilson If the Griffin Simplifi is too expensive for you, this $15 generic iPhone/iPod 3-port USB hub will allow you to sync an Apple product while accommodating up to three other devices that resent your favoritism. [USBFever]

By Danny Allen The kit works with any iPhone or iPod touch, but doesn't yet support Bluetooth or Bang and Olufsen devices. I gotta admit, the RedEye actually seems pretty cool. If the price comes down just a teeny bit, it may become a must-have iPhone accessory. [RedEye]

By Kat Hannaford Apple didn't approve of the use of a private API in Pointy Heads Software's Knocking Live Video app, which allows iPhone users to stream live video to each other over 3G and Wi-Fi. After pleading to Steve Jobs to reconsider their verdict, Apple got back to developer Brian Meehan the next mor...

By Mark Wilson Since the original JBL Creature speakers were released seven years ago, Apple's designs have (d)evolved into metal bricks. But that doesn't top JBL from selling the sci-fi-inspired Creature III exclusively through Apple channels.

By Jesus Diaz The main thing is that it works. A third-party has created a videoconferencing app for the iPhone that communicates with desktop computers, just using Apple's standard iPhone programming toolbox. The question now is: If it's that easy, why don't we have a camera and iChat AV on the iPhone?

By Adam Frucci You've got to wonder if Apple can afford to stick this exclusivity contract out another year, what with decent competitors such as the Droid and the Pre now available. AT&T is as big a black mark on Apple's customer service reputation as they've ever had. And hell, for AT&T's sake it...

By Adam Frucci What will they be selling? Oh, you know, Apple products such as the iPhone, iPod and iMac as well as stuff such as the Playstation 3, Vaio notebooks, the Kindle, Nokia phones and the Wii.

By Mark Wilson There are no details to be had yet, but apparently Psystar has filed paperwork with a San Francisco court revealing that the company has reached a "partial settlement" with Apple. More details should go public later today. [AppleInsider]

By Dan Nosowitz Apple Said to Be Bullying, Giving Wedgies to Flash Memory Makers Anyone surprised that Apple's been accused of practicing some, shall we say, Machiavellian business tactics? The Korea Times published a story in which anonymous representatives of Apple's major flash memory partners...

By Jesus Diaz Which begs the question once again: When in the name of all that is good and chromed is Apple going to update the iPhone with a front camera and iChat AV? Given their push for videoconferencing on the desktop, the power in the current iPhone, and the efficiency of their iChat AV video codecs,...

By Mark Wilson HP, Acer, Toshiba, etc, you think I like giving Apple all my money? There's a staggering amount of design talent in the world. Find it. Fund it. And give it a chance to wipe the smug grin off Cupertino. Offer us all something that we should really be envying. Light Fast Respectable I/O Feels cheap

By Wilson Rothman • If you want something with a nice interface and Pandora streaming music, go with WDTV. • If you're choosing something to work with your iTunes collection of music and video, or something for your parents, probably still better to pick Apple TV—and tell them to buy or rent all their videos.

By matt buchanan As promised, Apple's released the specs for iTunes LP and Extras, with templates, guides and testing materials to create them. Until it goes automatic next year, submission is manual process, and yes, Apple has to approve your work. [Apple]

By matt buchanan A few months ago, Apple bought their own mapmaker, Placebase, which seemingly opened the possibility of non-Google-y maps. Now, they're looking for an iPhone maps engineer to "rethink how users use Maps and change the way people find things."

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By matt buchanan I dislike capital letters. I dislike exceptional capital letters even more. The iPhone, and indeed most Apple products, suffer from "camel case," as the NYT's On Language calls it. "Steep is the descent into orthographic antinomianism." He's right.

By Adam Frucci Err, what? This is the equivalent of Foxconn, who build the iPhone, notifiying Apple a couple of days before launch that they'd be moving ahead and selling the iPhone directly without any involvement from Apple.

By Jack Loftus The 3,1 phone was spotted in an analytics report from November for the iPhone app iBART. Also noteworthy is the timing of the discovery: In October 2008, Apple starting testing the 3GS in and around the San Francisco area. [MacRumors]

By Mark Wilson Wall of Sound iPod Dock: There are iPod docks, and there are iPod docks. This is most definitely the latter, a handcrafted, 3x4-foot, 225lb, 125W beast. And one day, when Apple inevitably tweaks the iPod port, this behemoth will be useless—feeding into the general regret and dissatisfact...

By Dan Nosowitz Motorola Droid: Sure, Matt may have called the Droid "the second best smartphone you can buy," the best being the iPhone 3GS, but Apple haters will find plenty to love about the Droid—and plenty to loathe about the iPhone. I won't rehash our review (or Verizon's intimidating "Droid Does" a...

By Adam Frucci Apple told The Little App Factory to change the name of their popular app iPodRip, as it had the word iPod in it. The CEO sent a passionate letter to Steve Jobs, and he got a response. Here's the letter he sent: Dear Mr. Jobs, Best, John Devor And Steve replied: Steve Sent from my iPhone

By Jesus Diaz The Apple I was the first Apple computer. The two Steves started to sell it on July 1976. The price then was $666.66. At the time all computers needed to be assembled, but the Apple I was a motherboard—assembled by themselves at Jobs parents' garage—was ready to connect to a keyboard, monitor, a...

By Wilson Rothman This isn't about photos and music. Apple TV is better at both of those than any of this stuff. It's also not about renting movies or buying movies, or even streaming movies from Netflix. Roku has a nice cheap box for that, and Apple TV is suitable if you just want to live inside Steve Jobs' media st...

By John Herrman Apple can permanently patch the blacksn0w exploit in their next firmware update. You must download Cydia's "On File" system in case Apple blocks more exploits in future updates. It's still safe to run the tool, but keep in mind that Apple can—and probably will—patch the core exploit used b...

By Wilson Rothman 6. No DivX "This file was not transferred because it is unable to be played on Apple TV." Steve Jobs once said that only 4% of music on iPods came from iTunes. A lot of movies that would be nice to play on Apple TV simply don't, while H.264 is an option on Handbrake and other personal-use DVD-encodin...

By Wilson Rothman 5. Photos Still Require a Sync I don't quite understand this quirk of Apple TV: While music and movies I don't sync to the local drive still appear as long as they're in iTunes on my Mac, the photos that live on that same Mac are off limits unless I physically sync them. The alternative is to share...

By John Herrman iPhone OS is already a superpower with massive adoption, a huge app store and a bright future. They're not going anywhere. They learned their lessons about the importance of volume and apps when I was still a kid. But what about the other two smartphone players that consumers really love? You...

By Joel Johnson What is it in France they say? 'America contributed three things to culture: jazz, musical comedy and comic books.'" You can already buy two on iTunes. And if things pan out, you'll be get the third on the Apple tablet. I spoke to Inhatko on my tiny Apple tablet last week about his story. He's incr...

By Chris Jacob Apple: • Apple iMac Review: 27 Inches and Less Chin • Unibody Apple MacBook Review • Apple Magic Mouse Review • Time Capsule and Airport Extreme Grow New Antennas to Get Faster and Stronger • Mac Mini Updates: Faster Processors, More Memory, and a Dual Hard Disk Server

By Brian Lam The larger case allows the iMac to use four sticks of user-serviceable RAM, accessible from the bottom. (That's useful futureproofing now that OS X Snow Leopard is shipping, and programs and the OS in 64-bit can address more than 4GB at a time.)

By Jason Chen Benchmarks and Battery Life Comparing the 13-inch aluminum unibody MacBook of 2008 to the 13-inch aluminum unibody MacBook Pro to the 13-inch MacBook now shows that there really isn't a big difference between the three models. The small discrepancies fall inside the margin of error, an...

By Brian Lam First of all, XBench is just falling apart as a test these days, having being revised a long time ago and taking advantage of zero of the latest OSX technologies. Also, from what we've seen, XBench scores take a hit in the openGL rendering on Snow Leopard, compared to Leopard. The new machine s...

By Dan Nosowitz Today Apple released Performance Update 1.0 for Leopard and Snow Leopard, aiming to fix the intermittent hard drive problems reported by some users. We'd love to hear if it actually fixes those issues this time—let us know! [TheLoop]

By Jesus Diaz At last, Apple has released a much-needed patch: iPhone OS 3.1.2 is out and it solves the sleep issue—in which the iPhone refused to wake up—brought in by the previous version. There are other fixes too: It weighs 241.7MB. Go get it in iTunes. After the update—which is also available for the iPod T...

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By matt buchanan AT&T supposedly just told Apple and the FCC this afternoon that their network is ready for VoIP over 3G for the iPhone, meaning it might take a bit to show up in apps, but the floodgates are open now. And yeah, whoa. Skype over 3G has been okay on other phones that weren't the iPhone before th...

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By Sean Fallon •Resolves issues browsing the iTunes Store. •Addresses a performance issue where iTunes may become unresponsive. •Fixes a problem syncing Podcasts in playlists to iPod or iPhone. •Improves application syncing for iPod touch and iPhone.

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By Wilson Rothman And iPod Touch gets screwed! Yesterday Apple unveiled a few new toys. Best of the lot was the new Nano, now with built-in camcorder, and iTunes 9, with media sharing, iPhone app management and a store makeover. • iTunes 9: Everything You Need To Know • iPod Nano 5th Gen Review

By Jaimal Yogis We are rounding the bluffs on Highway 1, chatting casually now, and while Meyerhoffer explains about quitting Apple 10 years ago and starting to surf everyday, I'm not really listening. I'm thinking about the fact that I too am so dependent on technology, recording our conversation on my...

By Rosa Golijan Verdict? Choco-Tablet Beats iPhone Across the Board in Taste Test It would be a travesty to not truly live up to our theme and conduct a proper comparison test. So I made sure to try out the edibility of another Apple product, my iPhone. Let's just assume that it doesn't taste all that great bec...

By Wilson Rothman I was surprised by one line in Walt Mossberg's otherwise predictable review of Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard: But here's a tip: Apple concedes that the $29 Snow Leopard upgrade will work properly on these Tiger-equipped Macs, so you can save the extra $140."

By John Herrman The Verdict: At just $20 more than Apple's In-Ear headset, the Klipsch Image S4i is a no-brainer, assuming Voice Control and VoiceOver are priorities to you. If they don't matter, or if you've got an older iPhone or non-Apple handset, the choice is less clear.

By John Herrman to show it's real. If you look at the board, it states Apple 2009 very clear. The 2nd gen AKA iPod touch out now, has 2008 on it. They haven't revised the 2008 touch. I will compare them in pic in a sec. I acquired this from a guy that I buy parts phones and iPods from. I believe he's a recycler in *********...

By John Herrman Did you hear about that Palm Pre update yesterday? The one that re-enables iTunes syncing? Yes, probably, but Palm would still very much like to emphasize to you, and now the USB Implementers Forum, that it's fighting the good fight.

By Jesus Diaz If this load of recently filed Apple patents become a reality, your iPhone may become a perfect tool for spies soon, with real world object identification, faces recognition, voice alteration, and text filtering, among other things:

By Dan Nosowitz Since Apple hasn't given us a comprehensive list of all the little changes in iPhone 3.0, users have taken it upon themselves to compile the treats they've found in the new software, some of which are actually quite nice. • Our iPhone 3.0 Review • The Complete Guide to iPhone 3.0

By Wilson Rothman Known Pre Issues • Tethering? Maybe not • iTunes syncing could go away • Hooray for homebrew! • How's that reception? • Screen scratchy? Heat distortion? Apple iPhone 3GS Reviews • Our Review • What other reviewers are saying • iPhone 3GS Complete Feature Guide

By matt buchanan Don't get us wrong, we love that Apple brought many of the Pro hallmarks down to their consumer machines, like the aluminum chassis, and that now high-end Apple laptops are more affordable than ever. But now real pros probably won't even look at most of the Pro line.

By Jesus Diaz There are also rumors about ypdates to the Apple Cinema Displays—moving everything to LED backlighting—and the iPod touch—which also needs to be updated, probably reaching the 64GB mark in the same way the iPhone will be doubling its capacity (the iPhone has one NAND RAM chip inside for...

By Jesus Diaz Apparently, several Apple users are reporting in forums that the screen in the unibody MacBooks has been quietly upgraded to MacBook Air standards, offering noticeably better quality than older units. It all started last April.

By matt buchanan Mac users are still exposed to a Java vulnerability that's been public for 6 months after Apple neglected to patch it in the recent honking 10.5.7 update. Okay Windows guys, point and laugh. But if you want to be super safe, you should turn off Java in your browser, no matter what platform you're...

By Jason Chen The latest point release of Leopard is out now, which you can get if you hit up Software Update from your Mac. Updated. Update: We're hearing that the update is causing some issues with some people. Might want to wait it out a while to see if there's an update to the update. [Apple Support - Thanks T...

By Dan Nosowitz Laptop Magazine finds several flaws with Consumer Reports' findings, the most important of which is a total lack of transparency: How in the world did they arrive at these ratings? For example, the MacBook Air shows a performance rating of "Good," but what does that mean? The Air isn't ex...

By Dan Nosowitz We should note, of course, that this survey does not include satisfaction with the wireless service provider at all, which we suspect would have brought the iPhone's scores down to Earth. But at the moment, the iPhone seems to be top dog. [JD Power via CNET]

By John Mahoney • Paul van Dyk Pitches You the Paul van Dyk iPhone App • Apple Hits One Billion Apps • Apple Apologizes for Approving Baby Shaker iPhone Game • Ask a Ninja iPhone Game Preview • iPhone 3.0 Will Have "Jibbler" Voice Controls, Talk Back to You Like iPod Shuffle

By Jesus Diaz A new version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard—labeled 10A335—has hit developers. Apple hasn't mentioned any new features or bug fixes, however. The Server version—which was released alongside—does come with an easier to use version of Podcast Producer, new spam mail filters in Mail Server,...

By Dan Nosowitz In a survey of customer satisfaction, the computer industry as a whole scored pretty badly, with Apple the marginal best out of a not-so-thrilling bunch. The worst sector, however, was ISPs, which seem universally loathed. None of the hardware manufacturers came close to the top, howeve...

By Brian Lam Time Capsule is $500 for a 1TB and $300 for 500GB of storage. That's not a ton of storage for high-end machines these days, and multiple machines will almost certainly require the 1TB setup if you want to keep a moderately detailed history of your computers' data changes. As you'd expect from...

By Jason Chen This new iPod shuffle is about half the volume of the previous iPod shuffle. HALF. By moving all the controls from the face onto the headphone cable, Apple was able to reduce the width and thickness to almost 50%, even if the length grew slightly. This wasn't totally sensible: Although the hea...

By Jesus Diaz If you want to install cool apps on your iPhone or iPod Touch for free, easily, breaking Apple-imposed limitations without breaking your warranty or Applethingie, here is the how-to guide for Mac and...

By Wilson Rothman Xbench test results Geekbench test results In real world testing, I made further discoveries of the iMac's pre-eminence among its Mac peers. Ripping a 26-track CD in iTunes took just 3 minutes and 50 seconds on the iMac, while it took nearly 10 minutes (OK, 9:45) on the Mini with 2GB of RAM.

By Wilson Rothman The Mac Mini is the greatest Mac that never was, always just a little too expensive and/or a little too underfeatured to be perfect. This time it's closer than ever to perfection—but still falls short. Quake 4 Demo Mac Mini with 1GB of RAM vs 2009 iMac Mac Mini with 2GB of RAM vs 2009 iMac

By Jesus Diaz Right before the Macworld keynote, Jobs confirmed the problems in an open letter to the Apple community. He said that his doctors thought they got to the bottom of his health problems—a hormonal imbalance—and he recently had begun treatment to resolve the situation. He also said he would r...

By matt buchanan Brian actually loaned his personal MSI Wind Hackintosh for the Giz Gallery. It seems more likely that Apple is actually sending Wired a cease-and-desist rather than asking for money—telling them to pull the tutorial, which explicitly lays out step by step how to put OS X on a netbook, incl...

By Mark Wilson It's simply not a seamless or fulfilling enough experience to represent the nation's largest brick-and-mortar movie rental chain, and it's certainly not good enough to impress us when Netflix, Apple TV and Vudu are all doing it better. With a few aggressive firmware updates and the righ...

By Wilson Rothman Apple is reaching more people in more ways than ever before, so like many companies, trade shows have become a very minor part of how Apple reaches its customers....Apple has been steadily scaling back on trade shows in recent years, including NAB, Macworld New York, Macworld Tokyo and Apple...

By Adrian Covert As far as remote capabilities go, I tested the Apple In-ear headphones with an iPhone 3G and a first gen iPod touch (neither of which are officially supported. As Apple claims, the audio works fine with both devices. Neither the remote or the mic work with the iPod touch 1G at all, merely reduc...

By Mark Wilson We already knew that the latest iPod touch featured the fastest processing of its siblings (a 532MHz-clocked processor vs 412MHz on the original iPhone, the original iPod touch and even the new iPod 3G). But we were surprised to hear from software developers that the latest iPod touch can...

By Jesus Diaz iTunes and App Store • App store reorganization: The UI has been sightly reorganized and polished. The categories, for example, now display bigger and with icons. As I speculated in our iPhone 2.2 rumor round-up, the icons shown seem to show the top free application. Fixes

By Elaine Chow For all you Apple TV users out there, Apple's now released firmware version 2.3. The patch, downloadable through the media hub's built in updater, now lets users stream music from AirTunes to any speakers connected to an Airport Express or other Apple TVs in the house. You'll also get the abi...

By Jesus Diaz Risking a spacetime paradox that could destroy the entire Universe, a Japanese guy has devised a way to naturally grow Fuji apples with the Apple logo on them. His technique is very simple: Apply an Apple sticker (or iPod or Appleish Heart) a month before harvesting.

By Jason Chen The takeaway from these charts is that yes, there really is a difference between the MacBook and MacBook Pro in terms of graphical capability. The two benchmarks we used before, GeekBench and XBench, do a poor job of utilizing the graphics card. Whether that's because the benchmarks are tw...

By matt buchanan The Apple Tax is a popular term for people who believe Macs are overpriced. It's usually screamed at the top of lungs (or the blog-commenter equivalent), but it's rarely been dissected. The truth about the Apple Tax is straightforward on one level—you will pay more for the same specs on a Mac...

By matt buchanan In the case of Macs vs PCs, you could argue that customer support, the Leopard OS and design elements such as the new unibody construction and glass trackpads are what make up the Apple Tax. The only problem with this logic is that, when you compare Apple computers alone with no PCs in sight, t...

By John Mahoney New Pics Surface of Anonymous Apple Laptop (Apple Pro - Taiwan): TRUE Rumor: New MacBook and MacBook Pro Will Look Like Air + iMac (Appleinsider): TRUE. With a little bit of iPhone thrown in for good measure, we would add, but that's definitely the gist.

By Elaine Chow Looks like its Update Day at Apple—the company just released Apple TV 2.2, which users can access through the “update software” menu option in Settings. The software revamp now includes support for features introduced in iTunes 8.0, including video playlists, Genius playlists and HDTV s...

By Jason Chen Just like Apple TV 1.0, it's a fantastic way for people to get their iTunes-purchased movies, music and TV shows from their computers onto their living room TVs. What's even better—the "mass appeal," if you like—about version 2.0 is that it doesn't require a computer to function. People can p...

By Wilson Rothman Apple Announces Mac OS X Server Leopard CUPERTINO, Calif., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple(R) today announced that Mac OS(R) X Server version 10.5 Leopard will go on sale on Friday, October 26, at the same time as Mac OS X Leopard. Leopard Server extends Apple's legendary ease of use,...

By Jason Chen 100 doesn't go a long way in Apple land. It can get you a keyboard and 3/5 of a mouse. It can you get an iPod shuffle and almost an entire set of spare headphones. It will buy you 5/6 of a Bluetooth headset. And this is just the cheapest items. Most people will use this $100 on something more expensive, l...

By Jason Chen Steve Jobs and Apple announced the $100 Store Credit "rebate" for all iPhone owners that were eager enough to buy an iPhone when it first came out. The early adopters had enough faith in the company to buy early, even though it cost a good $500/$600. It's a great gesture, in theory, but let's an...

By Jason Chen Pash over at Lifehacker has a tutorial up on how to install third-party applications to your iPhone. It's notable because it comes straight from our iPhone Book, along with many more tips and tricks that you won't find in other books (seriously, we've read the other books, and they don't ha...

By Mark Wilson Today, as our two most expensive units battle, marks the close of our first round of iPod Dock Battlemodo. First, we have the $349 Apple Hi-Fi. It's the Chosen System, blessed by the hands of Steve Jobs himself. And while it's late on the scene, that allowed Apple a chance to learn from the mista...

By Wilson Rothman People have been talking about the "hidden cost" of iPhone, that is, the monthly fee that will be required to do all of the fun webby things iPhone can do (YouTube video being just one of them). But it's so well hidden, nobody yet knows what the cost is. Our Continuing iPhone Coverage [Gizmodo]

By Brian Lam iLounge: LC Angell and gang are Apple Journo vets. That shows through in these two nice articles, in top 10 form, listing geek factoids and reasons why you don't need an AppleTV. Concise, and topped with a nice Live Sizemodo-ish Gallery of AppleTV with an iPod and Mac Mini. Did I mention those b...

By Noah Robischon Having played with Apple TV, it's easy enough to agree with what Mossy and Pogue have already told you: This device works very well if you don't mind that your entire digital media experience has to remain inside Apple's walled garden. And iLounge has offered 10 pretty convincing reasons w...

By Noah Robischon that it doesn't come with cables, and that it only works on widescreens. These crits are minor, and I don't mind that iTunes has to be running while I use the Apple TV either—I leave it on much of the time anyhow. The real flaws that I see in Apple TV are, like many of its best attributes, more compl...

Here we go again. We've barely finished wiping the drool from our mouth after this month's Macworld Expo and already the internets are rumbling with news that Apple is planning another event in February to announce further details on their new Leopard OS. LoopRumors is claiming we could se...

2) Ask the operator for Gene (like denim) Teluse, VP of Customer Care. She is Apple's highest ranking customer service agent, and she reports directly to Steve Jobs. 3) Leave a nice message, include any Apple Case/Repair numbers you might have, or your machine's serial number, and a callba...

By Jason Chen 1) Call Apple Corporate: 408-996-1010) 3) Leave a nice message, include any Apple Case/Repair numbers you might have, or your machine's serial number, and a callback number. 5) Calmly explain your story, and what you want Apple to do.